Time's Gone By

got one of these in 88, and didnt see the sun for a week straight

still have it, and it still works

DeadSkunk wrote: My first job was spotting pins for a quarter a string ! How many of you don't understand what I just wrote ?

That would suck.

Toyman01 wrote:

DeadSkunk wrote: My first job was spotting pins for a quarter a string ! How many of you don't understand what I just wrote ?

That would suck.

Old roomie of mine worked evenings fixing pin spotter machines. Those things would jam, it was his job to shake the mechanism loose. I didn't realize how dangerous it was till the night he came home with a 6" long cut on his side, the machine sort of 'collapsed' with him in it and some of the linkage chewed his side up.

DeadSkunk wrote: My first job was spotting pins for a quarter a string ! How many of you don't understand what I just wrote ?

I don't fully... I'm guessing that you were either resetting pins or overseeing the machines that did it and fixing them when they malfunctioned at a bowling alley--but I don't know what the "string" means.

My first job was as a pro jock, a looper. Who doesn't understand that (and if you don't, you need to be shot for not seeing the best movie ever)

Osterkraut wrote:

Curmudgeon wrote: We got cable TV around 1977? '78? until then we had a big ass TV antenna on the chimney. The antenna had a motor on it, there was a big dial on top of the TV so you could aim the antenna from inside the house. I remember it had the points of the compass on the dial. There were 4 TV stations (that really cracked my kid up) and we had the best reception settings for each marked on the dial.

E36 M3 I had that till the 90s!

I still have that. Cable/Sat is too berkeleying expensive for the 4 channels on it I would actually watch.

Toyman01 wrote:

I have one of these in the attic. And it still works!

One of these made summer driving a little better while I was in high school and college:

Car swamp cooler: Just plug in to 12VDC and add water.

fasted58 wrote:

We had that exact model antenna rotor when I was a kid. In the winter the antenna would freeze up so it couldn't move, and then we were stuck with one channel instead of three.

I used to own a photography studio and was thinking the other day how good guys have it today with digital. I had a polaroid back to preview a shot before I wasted a sheet of film. Days in the darkroom are now gone too.

Also, Football II would throw a pass, not just run front and back. I have one and still play it!

And I got very excited when I was a kid and we moved to Chicago, they had 7 channels instead of 4. That was a HUGE deal. And I remember remote controls that attached to the TV with a cord. My dad built our first color TV from Heathkit. We used it for many years into the '80's. It was a very good TV.

In reply to mtn: I manually reset pins on two adjacent alleys for 25 cents/game/bowler. 5 pins were easy, 10 pins harder and duck pins just sucked to spot.

We didnt get cable until the 90's I think but remember it being available in the late 70's. We did get the original Atari thing though and the few games that came with it like Tank, Asteroids, and Pong. Missed the cell phones, never saw the bricks except on TV or movies. Didnt have a cell phone until the small flip phones came out and the cost was down. I do remember when the cassette tapes came out and made the 8 track obsolete. That was a big deal and then when the CD came out it was even bigger.

prepare to have your mind blown:

tethered to

racerdave600 wrote: My dad built our first color TV from Heathkit. We used it for many years into the '80's. It was a very good TV.

Heathkit. I haven't seen that ad in the back of PM etc for ages.

I just bought an old Zenith console record player. It's a magical device that is not only stereophonic but is also powered by vacuum tubes (12ax7, (2) 6bq5, 5Y3GT). It works, albeit needing some rehab, and the little old lady only wanted $40.

Meeting places. Remember when you would agree to split up and then meet a certain place and time? Cellphones have killed that off. I also miss mass storage devices like these:

4cylndrfury wrote: prepare to have your mind blown: tethered to

My old console TV is still working fine. When it dies I wll get up todate.

4cylndrfury wrote: prepare to have your mind blown:

"P-10 Please." heheheh

mtn wrote:

Curmudgeon wrote: Okay, this is for the young punks on the site so you old farts shut your traps. I bet no one under 30 can name this thing:

Is it an adapter to run a 45 on a record player? I seem to remember dad having one in his record cleaning kit; my record player has a completely different looking one.

FWIW, it's the logo of Stereo Skateboards

Their graphic aesthetic was initially inspired by 60's Blue Note jazz records. I have a sweatshirt with that adapter on it.

Recently, some of my wife's relatives and I were trying to figure out if it had a name other than "45 adaptor". I thought it did ("frog" kept coming to mind).

Interestingly enough, sales of new vinyl records are through the roof (seriously).

Best cartoon EVER. Now that I'm thinking about it, I need to go find some DVDs on Ebay so I can show my kids...

Klayfish wrote: Best cartoon EVER. Now that I'm thinking about it, I need to go find some DVDs on Ebay so I can show my kids...

Get the original ones with the Japanese story line (Space Battleship Yamato) Also check out the recent live action version.

...and this one was regional, AFAIK. Boston channel 38 got it in the early 80's

Force Five (Danguard Ace, Starvengers, Spaceketeers, Grandizer and Gaiking--one for each weekday) It was a precursor to Transformers, with semi-transforming mecha.

Surprisingly, I never got into anime even though I was consumed with these shows and Robotech in the mid-80's.

I'll turn 30 next month, I definitely remember gas being less than $1.00 a gallon (think it was 97 cents when I got my license), and about the same time one of my friends got a bag cellphone...which he continued to use as his backup phone until 2009. (The reception was that good).

My contribution to the thread: I remember going to Village Video with my parents at the age of 3 or 4 and renting a GIANT VCR in an aluminum briefcase. It was probably more expensive than actually going to the movies.

turboswede wrote:

Klayfish wrote: Best cartoon EVER. Now that I'm thinking about it, I need to go find some DVDs on Ebay so I can show my kids...

Get the original ones with the Japanese story line (Space Battleship Yamato) Also check out the recent live action version.

I haven't seen the cartoon since I was about 11 years old. Which was the one they showed here in the US? Was it this one? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Star-Blazers-Series-1-Quest-Iscandar-Part-1-DVD-2000-/251099222544#vi-content

I imagine someone here has had their parent or grandparents order them clothes and toys from a Sears, Penneys, Wards, or other foot thick catalog.

Even into the mid 90s, my grandma would buy me clothes from the JCPenneys Catalog. She would also get me stuff from Lillian Vernon, it would always have my name embroidered on it.